Yeah I fell for the "champagne trick"but I was young and in the Army away from USA for first time in my life shame on those girls but now I laugh about it. This afternoon I took a rather different sort of tour: the sex tourist's tour of Stuttgart.
I did this after stumbling across the internet forum International Sex Guide and then distilling the information on Stuttgart into a series of addresses in the city centre and travelling from one to the next. Here they are. This place did not exactly announce itself from the outside, it was the internet that placed it on the sex tourist's map. There were a couple of reviews of the service, which was pricey and not so great, if you take the contributor's opinion as valid.
The Red Light District of Stuttgart is a different proposition altogether. This place is visible from the street; it is a concentration of businesses more or less offering the same thing: sex for money. The area is very close to the city centre, just tucked out the way so as to not intrude too much upon the clean image the city wants to present to the casual visitor. I went to the Red Light District during the daytime when most of the places were closed.
There were one or two women smoking cigarettes who'd quietly say, "hello" and a few more or less sleazy guys hanging around, but it was for the most part quiet. These two roads must come alive after dark and at weekends, I suppose. The Internet guide said that it was inexpensive here, but that there were some rip-offs with "the champagne trick".
On my way to my next address I passed one of the many sex shops that are in the city centre. This one 'beate uhse' is a chain I believe; I think I even saw one of these in the airport. The overall impression this highly visible sex-shop chain gives is not sensual in the least but rather strangely mechanical, kind of like the Stuttgart Tour bus giving you the come on.
